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Asian Youth Orchestra - Event Details
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| when: | Fri 01st August 2008 - Sat 02nd August 2008 | 19.30 h |
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| Event: | Asian Youth Orchestra | |
| Where: | Science and Cultural Arts Center Grand Theatre - Suzhou | |
| Category: | Public Events | |
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The 103 members of the Asian Youth Orchestra (AYO) are among the finest young musicians in China, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Chosen through highly competitive auditions held throughout the region, they are together for six weeks each summer, initially for a three week Rehearsal Camp, then to perform on tour for three weeks with international solo artists and conductors. In 17 years, they have performed with cellists Yo-Yo Ma, Mischa Maisky, violinists Gidon Kremer, Gil Shaham, Leila Josefowicz, Young Uck Kim, Akiko Suwanai and Cho-Liang Lin, soprano Elly Ameling, pianists Alicia de Larrocha, Cecile Licad, Leon Fleisher and Jon Nakamatsu, the Beaux Arts Trio and trumpeter Hakan Hardenberger. Among those who have conducted AYO are Sergiu Comissiona, Alexander Schneider, Eri Klas, Tan Dun, Okko Kamu and the orchestra's co-founders, Yehudi Menuhin and Richard Pontzious. Since its debut concerts in 1990, the Asian Youth Orchestra has performed in New York's Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, at the White House, at the United Nations, and at the Hollywood Bowl. On two European tours the Orchestra has appeared in Amsterdam's historic Concertgebouw and opened the fall concert season in Berlin's Konzerthaus. In 1996, AYO was the first international orchestra in more than 50 years to perform in Hanoi, Vietnam. The orchestra returned four years later for two concerts in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City before continuing on to Australia for debut concerts in the famed Sydney Opera House for the 2000 Olympic Arts Festival. In 1997, AYO was in Hong Kong and Beijing with cellist Yo-Yo Ma for the world premiere performances of Tan Dun's Symphony 1997. That tour, the longest ever undertaken in China by an international orchestra, also marked AYO's unparalleled third appearance in Beijing's 10,000-seat Great Hall of the People. Since 1990, the Asian Youth Orchestra has played 261 concerts in 167 cities to more than one million people. Millions more around the world have seen and heard the orchestra on CNN, CNBC Asia, NHK Television, Radio and Television Hong Kong, and Star TV. Some 1,000 to 1,500 musicians in 12 Asian countries and territories audition each year for AYO. The youngest is 15, the oldest 25. When selected, they study with an exceptional artist-faculty from the Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, National, San Francisco and Pittsburgh symphony orchestras, Boston Musica Viva, the Cleveland and Philadelphia orchestras and Monnaie Opera. A tuition-free summer program, the Asian Youth Orchestra is designed to ignite a pride for what can be achieved by Asian musicians in Asia, while affecting a positive influence on the brain and talent drain that continues to frustrate all Asian nations. It is the orchestra's intention to expose Asia's brightest young musicians to rich and varied artistic experiences that include rare opportunities for exchange, study and performance. A formation committee of Hong Kong business men and women created the organizational structure for the Asian Youth Orchestra in 1987 and established it as a non-profit charitable trust qualified under Section 88 of the Hong Kong Inland Revenue Ordinance as a tax-exempt institution. Richard Pontzious Artistic Director and Conductor Richard Pontzious has spent his life in music. He founded the Asian Youth Orchestra in 1987 with the distinguished violinist, conductor and humanitarian Yehudi Menuhin. The idea for the creation of an orchestra that would unite the region and celebrate the talents of Asia's brightest young musicians came as the result of Mr. Pontzious' work as conductor, teacher and writer in Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, where he has lived and worked for some 30 years. Mr. Pontzious served as conductor-in-residence at the prestigious Shanghai Conservatory of Music in the early1980s, toured with the Conservatory orchestra and guest conducted numerous Chinese. Since 1987, Mr. Pontzious has devoted his professional life to the Asian Youth Orchestra. This has led to conducting appearances in Beijing, Berlin, Shanghai, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Osaka, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Sydney, Manila, Hong Kong, as well as in Romania and Italy. Mr. Pontzious was appointed Artistic Director and Conductor of the Asian Youth Orchestra in 2002. A student of American composer Lou Harrison and conductors Sergiu Comissiona, Ferdinand Leitner and Josef Krips, Mr. Pontzious received the Bronze Bauhinia Star from the Hong Kong Government in 2000 for his contribution to music and the arts. That same year, at age 56, he received his private pilot's license. James Judd Guest Conductor Making his Asian Youth Orchestra debut this summer, the British-born conductor James Judd is Music Director Emeritus of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He is also Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestre National de Lille in France. A graduate of London's Trinity College of Music, James Judd came to international attention as the Assistant Conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, a post he accepted at the invitation of Lorin Maazel. Four years later he returned to Europe after being appointed Associate Music Director of the European Community Youth Orchestra by Claudio Abbado, an ensemble with which he continues to serve as an honorary Artistic Director. Since that time he has directed the Berlin Philharmonic and the Israel Philharmonic, conducted in the great concert halls of Europe, including the Salzburg Mozarteum and Vienna's Musikverein, and made guest appearances with such prestigious ensembles as the Vienna Symphony, the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig, the Prague Symphony, Orchestre National de France, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the Monte Carlo Symphony Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Flemish Radio Orchestra, and the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg. As an opera conductor, he has appeared with the English National Opera and at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival. He continues to conduct all the major British ensembles, and was co-founder of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, which he has led on tours throughout the United States, the Far East and Europe. In North and South America he is a frequent and much-admired guest conductor, having appeared with the orchestras of St Louis, Montreal, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Indianapolis, Utah, Vancouver and Ottawa, and for fourteen years served as Music Director of the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, one of America's orchestral success stories. Program 1 Guest conductor: James Judd Soloist: Elmar Oliveira Chen Yi: Momentum Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Concerto in D for Violin and Orchestra Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 Program 2 Artistic Director & Conductor: Richard Pontzious Soloist: Alisa Weilerstein Samuel Barber: Second Essay for Orchestra Edward Elgar: Concerto in E minor for Cello and Orchestra Serge Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Selections from Suites I and II Programmes subject to change. The grand theatre reserves the rights of final interpretation of the above programmes. |
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| Venue | Science and Cultural Arts Center Grand Theatre | |
| Homepage: | http://www.sscac.com.cn |
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| Street: | No.1 Guan Feng Jie SIP - 中国江苏省苏州工业园观枫街1号 | |
| ZIP: | 215028 | |
| City | Suzhou | |
| Country: | CN | |
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Suzhou Science & Cultural Arts Centre (SSCAC) 苏州科技文化艺术中心 - 大剧院 is an attempt to epitomize all that is Suzhou under one roof. SSCAC is built alongside the beautiful Lake Jin Ji on 150,000 sq. meters of land south of the maple forest and the Suzhou International Expo Centre. This piece of property was designated by government for a cultural park, in line with the recommendations of Edaw, a US city-planning consultancy who envisaged the Lake area to be a New Paradise on Earth The Centre will house a variety of function facilities:Grand Theatre, Dinner Theatre, Cineplex, IMAX Theatre, exhibition galleries, function halls, commercial centre and horticultural gardens. It will be the permanent home to the world-renowned annual ‘ Jin Ji (Golden Rooster) Cinematic Awards’ , a communication platform for artists around the world and a landmark for shopping and leisure activities. Information: Tel. 0512 69006088 - Fax 0512 62899700 |
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